Conservative Republicans Still At Large

   Just because we have a Democrat moving into the White House, along with a Democrat controlled House and Senate, does not mean that the fight for American citizens is over. Far from it. Those EVIL Republicans will fight every step of the way in order to keep the majority of Obama's ideas from becoming policy in this country. That is one thing that you can count on from the GOP. Filibuster,filibuster, and filibuster is mostly what we are going to get from the Republicans when the Congress attempts to pass anything meaningful for you and I. I'll bet that we have more filibuster's in Obama's first six months than we did in Bush's entire eight years in office. If it doesn't benefit big business, then the Republicans will try stopping those bills/laws from being implemented. They most certainly will try to stop any form of Universal Healthcare, as well as most kind of regulation of the banking industry and Wall Street. Better public school funding? Not going to happen if the GOP can help it.

   So, with that in mind...

The Cancer of Conservatism

I have wracked my brain and I cannot think of ANY time the Republicans EVER acted in the interests of ordinary working men and women. They and their allies fought savagely against unions, never hesitating to use violence and state power to destroy them. (There is a myth that violence in labor disputes is only union-generated; check out Henry Ford's war against the unions to see a powerful refutation of this, or the war of the coal mine owners against the unions in West Virginia and Kentucky.)

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           In short, the modern conservative movement's leaders consist of those who despise working people, those who proudly defend America's horrible racist legacy, the worst of the religious fanatics, and all those who wish to preserve America as an all-white, fundamentalist Christian patriarchy. On top of that is a group I can only call the New Imperialists, (the Neo-Conservatives) dedicated to imposing our "will" on every other nation on earth. And their methods of acquiring and keeping power have been so vicious and ugly as to shame any decent person.

Today, look what the Republican Party stands for: opposition to American working men and women, the channeling of trillions of dollars to the richest Americans, hatred of gays, hatred of immigrants, continued smoldering racism, opposition to desperately needed health care reforms, opposition to all environmental protections, spitting hatred for science, hatred for public schools, hatred of all those who are not fundamentalist Christians, support for torture, support for rendition, and support for the fantastically corrupt Bush-Cheney regime. The conservative cancer is the perpetuation of all the worst features of American life--intolerance, fear, prejudice, and tribalism. It is this cancer that screams out that Barack Obama is "the AntiChrist", a "Muslim radical", "corrupt", "ally of Satan", and all the other filth we have seen hurled at our next president. The Radical Right is now going to try to destroy Obama and block every reform he tries to institute. We, the Progressive Netroots, must and will fight these dangerous radicals every step of the way.

  I do suggest that you go and read the entire post here.

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Are Our U.S. Banks Bankrupt?

   That seems to be the thinking of one Jim Rogers, who happens to be one of the world's top international investors. He also brought into creation the Quantum Fund with help from George Soros.

  Mr. Rogers said,

"Without giving specific names, most of the significant American banks, the larger banks, are bankrupt, totally bankrupt," said Rogers, who is now a private investor.

"What is outrageous economically and is outrageous morally is that normally in times like this, people who are competent and who saw it coming and who kept their powder dry go and take over the assets from the incompetent," he said. "What's happening this time is that the government is taking the assets from the competent people and giving them to the incompetent people and saying, now you can compete with the competent people. It is horrible economics."

"Governments are making mistakes," he said. "They're saying to all the banks, you don't have to tell us your situation. You can continue to use your balance sheet that is phony.... All these guys are bankrupt, they're still worrying about their bonuses, they're still trying to pay their dividends, and the whole system is weakened."

  Financially and morally bankrupt. Those are the" elite" in America.

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